Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

Are we changing as fast as the world around us?

I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.